QPaint 3 instructions manual

- Intoduction

QPaint 3 is a professional graphic program for QB programmers. First of all,
it's very fast, and it handles SCREEN 12. You can make real 640x480 graphics.
I wrote it about two years (with the first and second release, of course).

- Installing

Launch the 'setup.exe' file. Select the directory (with mouse) where do you
want to install the program. In this directory the setup creates a 'qpaint3'
folder, and installs the program to it. The setup makes 'c:\qpaint3.ini'.
Important! Do not delete or remove this file! (But you can hide it, if you
want.) This file stores the location of the program. When the installation
finished, press a key to quit setup.

- Launch the program

Run 'qpaint3.exe' file to run the program. You can run with parameters, too:
'qpaint3.exe picturename', where 'picturename' is the file name of a picture
what you want to load automatically. (Under Windows you can make file
associations. If you specify 'qpaint3.exe' the default viewer for image
files, you can open them with double-click in Explorer.)

- The menu

The program has an "automatic" menu, the picture is under menu. Select some-
thing from the menu, and press the middle button of the mouse. Now the menu
is under picture, and you can work with the picture. (If you haven't got a
3-buttons mouse, or you press the third button, but the program doesn't
make anything, press both (right and left) buttons.) When you finished
drawing, press the middle button of the mouse, and the picture goes under
the menu...

- Functions of menu

New picture	Save picture
Open picture	Exit program
Undo		Redo
Pencil		Brush
Eraser		Spray
Get color	Fill
Insert text	Line
Box		Filled box
Ellipse		Filled ellipse
Circles		Lines
Effects		Skins
Zoom in		Zoom out
Select		Cut
Copy		Paste
Insert file	Copy to file

In the menu you can select color, too. With left button the foreground, with
right button the background color.

- Drawing tools

The pencil, brush, eraser, spray and get color functions are simple. The fill
is more difficult. You select the foreground color - whit this color want to
fill an object, e. g. a circle. Now you must specify the color of the object,
too. If the circle is blue, select blue for background color. The box and
circle functions are simple, too. You click somewhere on the picture (these
are te x1, y1 points of object), then you click to another point (x2, y2
points). The circles and lines functions are very special. You can use it
with click and drag method.

- Load/save

You can load a lot of file formats:

BMP, BSV, CDP, CEG, DCX, EPS, FLM, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, JPG, LBM, MAC, MSP,
PBM, PCC, PCD, PCX, PIC, PIM, PMC, QPG, QP2, QP3, RAS, RAW, RIX, SCF, SCR,
SFG, SFI, SKN, TGA, TIF, TOM, UCM, VMG, WPG.

The default is QP3. You can save in these formats:

BMP, BSV, GIF, IFF, IMG, JPG, PCX, QPG, QP2, QP3, SCF, SKN, TGA, TIF, TOM,
UCM.

The default is QP3.

- Storing the pictures

QPaint 3 has a special file format, the .QP3. This is based on compressed
BSAVE files. If you want to use the pictures in your program, take a look
to the 'qp3load' directory. The .QP3 files are cc. 6 kB. I developed a better
compression method, UltraCompress. This format uses .UCM files, and these
files are 3-4 kB. And floppy disk has 1.44 MB capacity... 245 pictures in
QP3, 420 pictures in UCM... and these pictures are 640x480. The load/save of
QP3 pictures may take max. 0.5 second. On a 486DX/66 machine. The UCM is
slower, because it uses a better compression. It's ready in 1.5-2 seconds.

- Special file formats

Ext.	Name			Type			Program
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BSV	BSave			memory-image		-
CDP	Command Draw Picture	vectorgraphics		Extreme Graphics
PIC	Picture (?)		memory-image		-
PIM	Pimuri			direct stored		PaintProject
QPG	QPaint Graphics	1	direct stored		QPaint 1
QP2	QPaint Graphics	2	direct stored		QPaint 2
QP3	QPaint Graphics	3	comp. memory-image	QPaint 3
SKN	QPaint 3 Skin File	comp. memory-image	QPaint 3
TOM	TomGraphics		direct stored		Duma 2.3
UCM	UltraCompress		comp. memory-image	QPaint 3

- Skins

You can use skins in the program. Press the button and select, for example,
'blue.skn'. Wonderful, no? NO? Then make a better skin. Draw it, and save
it in .SKN format.

- Zoom

Click zoom in button, then click somewhere in the picture. In zoom mode you
have special tools: zoomed pencil, zoomed brush, zoomed eraser, zoomed (?)
get color and zoomed fill.

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I hope you enjoy my program. If you like, or don't understand something in
the program, write an e-mail to qbm@freemail.hu. I'm a 17 years old Hungari-
an QB programmer, and I want to be a real programmer. I want to do this
always in my life.

							Thomas Bencsik

P.S: sorry for my bad English. I learn it about two years ago.